How to create and manage your group in LinkedIn: Here's how to create your group

How to create and manage your group

Many IT professionals advance their careers and your business objectives by counting on industry and professional groups, alumni of the organizations, conferences of the corporate sector and groups of students to help them make new business contacts are vital. LinkedIn groups allow the event organizers and the group of organizations to strengthen and expand the scope of your brand by providing additional value through the LinkedIn group characteristics. LinkedIn groups allow you to unite and organize communities of practitioners that share a common experience, passion, interest, affiliation or goal. Characteristics of the groups LinkedIn offer members a private space to strengthen old business contacts and presented to the new. Space provides a forum for the topics that will be discussed and solutions to be discovered. The members of the group are also able to freely communicate with one another through LinkedIn messaging.

Here's how to create your group:

You can start a new group of the Create a Group page. You will be the owner and administrator of any group you create.

To create a group:
Click on groups at the top of your home page, and then click Create a group. You will arrive at this page:

You need to create a custom message and tell people why they should contact you. This is another reason why you need to perform an investigation into the company and the individual so that you can create a personal note that will not be able to ignore. This is also the reason why you need to identify the purpose of the connection even before you arrive.

Of course, we will give you examples of a model in this e-book.

Step 2. Invite prospects to your group where it is regularly provided to the members of the group and send content to your website

Your group is the perfect platform to provide quality content to your potential customers. It is your opportunity to create a community. This is your opportunity to stay on top of the minds of your potential customers and keep them engaged.  It will help you to pre-sell your products and services, as it offers its members a sneak preview of the information can offer and how it can help them.   It will help you to build trust with potential sources of reference and give you an idea on how you can help your customers. And, it will display the media the information you provide- in this way will feel comfortable by publishing your articles, has to become a radio program online or teleseminar guest, with you in a magazine article or even taking you on television.

So, when you get to your potential customers, referral sources and media professionals later on - will be more willing to talk to you and take they're justified the action.

And, when they do become a member, make sure you give them a letter of personalized welcome that

Add your logo and create your group name. Note that you can change the name of your group only 5 times so think about what you want the title. Be sure to include your keywords. You can also add a benefit if you would like to;
For example experts of communication in the workplace - how to create organizations avoiding costly mistakes champion.
Then choose the type of group.
Now, we can get to use the templates in this ebook. Use the templates to create the summary and description of the groups. Once you do that - then as you can see in the screenshot below: ask for your website.

Then, we focus on the problems of access. For the first group, I would like to make self-join. There is no reason why you shouldn't have to worry about the approval of requests to join. You want to use the application for participation feature when you are using the LinkedIn group as a special forum for members who have paid to your association or group. Otherwise, select auto-join.
Then choose the language and check the location if the group is in a single geographic location. Click the announcement of Twitter so that you can make an announcement on Twitter about your group and that you agree to accept the terms of service.
The most important thing now: click Create a group for members only. Do not start with an open group. Remember, you want to build a community first, so you really want people to join your group.

How to manage your group? 

Although LinkedIn does not offer groups of reports, statistics or other statistics on the use of information, group owners and managers have several opportunities to manage their groups. Some of the main areas with management controls are:
1. Creation and management of subgroups.
2. Templates - Here is where you can add the emails that we have a template for you.
3. The list of members.
4. The administrator of the list.
5. Requests to join.
6. A pre-approval list of members.
7. A list of members blocked.
8. Edit group information.
9. Edit the configuration of the group.
10. Delete Group.
11. Change Owner.
12. Send out invitations.

To access the area in which an owner or administrator can adjust these and other areas take the following steps: 

1. Click on "Groups" which is located in the navigation bar at the top of the homepage. This will take you to the page "My groups".
2. Pass the mouse over "Go To" under the name of the appropriate group and click "Manage" from the drop-down menu provided.
3. Click on the appropriate link in the "Manage Groups" found on the right side of the screen.
4. Complete the necessary changes to their specific needs.